Word Meanings - CONCEPTUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to conception.

Related words: (words related to CONCEPTUAL)

• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• CONCEPTIONALIST
  A conceptualist.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CONCEPTION
  1. The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life. I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Gen. iii. 16. 2. The state of being conceived; beginning. Joy had the like conception in our eyes. Shak. 3.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• PRECONCEPTION
  The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
• MISCONCEPTION
  Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. Harvey.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach